Hey, you have excellent timing! I just this morning completed my readthrough of Pinball, 1973, and I'm assembling my thoughts for the forthcoming review.
It's very similar to Hear the Wind Sing, in that it's more a series of interconnected vignettes as opposed to a fully-contained novel, but I still really enjoyed it. If you got through HtWS and enjoyed it, I see no reason not to pick up the second in the series. It's more of the same, just different, full of about five thousand different passages you want to copy and quote and savor and remember...at least if you're me. ;)
Love that you're kind of following me along on this, @jalayn. Hope you're having fun. :)
I'm sure having fun, it's cool 😊 There is something I forgot to add to my mini-comment about the book, but I think it's important: the author makes clear that sometimes very basic things are what makes us happy, and we're not always aware of it.
I may be wrong, but this looks to me like something very recurrent in Miyazaki's work (like in Omoide poro poro for example)
Right now, I started reading Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (I love James Lovegrove's writing) but on paper, not on my ebook reader. And after that, or during that read, I'll certainly start Pinball, 1973 ! ;-)